A WOMAN who flew into London from China a few days ago is being treated for novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number of U.K. cases to nine.

Chief medical officer Chris Whitty said the woman was transferred to a specialist NHS center at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ in central London.

Whitty said the patient had contracted the virus in China.

Sources say she developed symptoms after landing at Heathrow, called the NHS emergency hotline (“111”) and then tested positive.

It comes after Professor Paul Cosford, from Public Health England, earlier told the BBC that more U.K. cases were “highly likely.”

Meanwhile, all 83 people being held in quarantine at Arrowe Park Hospital in the Wirral have been told their final set of test results for the virus have come back negative, confirming they are free of the virus.

It is expected they will leave the accommodation on Thursday morning, having spent two weeks there in quarantine.

(SD-Agencies)